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Why do people bother closing unlocked doors? Anybody who wants to see or go inside can just open them. Why do people put passwords on their computers? Anybody
by velis_vel 13y ago
Why do people bother closing unlocked doors? Anybody who wants to see or go inside can just open them.
Why do people put passwords on their computers? Anybody who has physical access can just remove the hard drive.
Why do people lock their cars? Anybody who wants to steal something can just smash the window.
- GrinningFool 13y agoApples and oranges. There's no other comparable situation in which you'd make a public announcement and somehow expect some group of people who could hear it to not hear it. And let's be clear - every 'tweet' is a public announcement to the world at large. Would you make an announcement on the 6:00 news and expect only some of the audience to see it? Would you write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper and think you could exercise control over who reads it? To invert it a bit, would you flag an email as spam and expect you could not mail the sender ever again?
- velis_vel 13y ago> There's no other comparable situation in which you'd make a public announcement and somehow expect some group of people who could hear it to not hear it. The problem is, it used to work one way and now Twitter is (or, was) changing it with some really flimsy justification (now they can't tell when you blocked them! except there are other ways that worked). It'd be one thing if blocking worked this way from day one, it's another entirely to suddenly change it.